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Sarah Stickney Ellis Quotes

1799–1872 England

Sarah Stickney Ellis (née Stickney; 1799 – 16 June 1872) was an English author. She was a Quaker turned Congregationalist.

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Those who live on vanity must not unreasonably expect to die of mortification.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

Life is not all incident; it has its intervals of thought, as well as action—of feeling—of endurance; and in order to reflect, and profit by these, it is sometimes necessary to sit down as it were upon the sand-hills of the desert, and consider from what point in the horizon the journey has been made, or to what opening in the distance it is likely to lead.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarah Stickney Ellis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.